Hat-pin guard.



J. KIRGHNER.

HAT PIN GUARD. APPLIUA'I'ION PILED APR.26, 1913.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

UNITED srArEs PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KIRGHNER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF T0 JOSEPH R. TIPIL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

HAT-PIN GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN KIRCHNER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin Guards; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim of this specification, its object.

being to provide simple, economical, efficient, durable and ornamental guards for detachable application to the point-ends of hat-pins to prevent damage by the same, and also to prevent said pins from working loose from the hats with which they are worn.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of a hat-pin of indefinite length and a guard in accordance with my invention applied on the point end of the pin; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the guard on said end of the pin, the section being indicated by line 22 inthe next described illustration; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of the pin and guard partly in transverse section on line 3-3 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4, a side elevation of the blank of a jaw-clip that constitutes a part of said guard.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a hat-pin and 6 the head thereof. Slipped on the point-end of the pin is a guard in accordance with my invention, said guard being in part a caslng comprising a preferably conical guide-shell section and a cap 8, the two being held together by inturning of the cap on a flange at one end of the shell as shown in Fig. 2. The other end of the shell 7 is funnel-shaped as shown at 7 to thereby direct the pin to the opening therein.

Arranged in the cap 8 is a cushion-block 9 of papier-mach, cork or other suitable material, and facing this block is a disk 10 having a central opening therein of suitable diameter. Caught between the flange of the guide-shell 7 and the disk 10 are outwardly bent ends 11 of apair of independent parallel jaws l2, and the other ends 13 of the jaws are flared to match the funnel-end of said shell against which they abut within the guard as a whole.

The jaws are held together in a clip sleeve 14, the same being primarily a flat strip having a widened end provided with a slot 15 through which the other end is passed and both ends are suitably bent one upon the other and the remainder of the clip sleeve. The parallel straight portions of the jaws 12 are centrally concavo-convex, as shown in Fig. 3, to provide a channel for the point end of a hat-pin. If the hat-pin be 0 sufficient diameter it will have a wedging fit between the jaws 12 of the above specified guard slipped thereon, and the point of the pin may extend into the cushlon-block 9 as shown in Fig. 2. In case the hat-pin is of insufficient diameter to have wedging fit between the jaws 12, it will be embedded in the cushion-block of the guard slipped thereon.

I claim:

In a hat-pinguard, the combination of a shell provided at one end with a flange, a cap inturned on the shell-flange, a pair of jaws having laterally bent ends abutting said flange inside the cap, and a disk in said cap against said ends of said jaws.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of-Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN KIRCHNER.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, FR. SPANIHEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. i 

